Ten minutes, and it gets under your fingernails for years. Misato takes the Brothers Grimm story every kid knows, mother goat slits the wolf's belly, kids come tumbling out, and lets you count the children with her until the math stops working. Toruku isn't there. The stop-motion is what does the damage: felt and wire puppets that move a half-beat wrong, a mother's face fixed in maternal warmth while the frames themselves seem to flinch. Then comes the part where a child would rather stay inside the wolf than come home, and the whole fairy tale flips inside out and points somewhere much worse. Yes, it's too short to build characters, that's the point, it's a wound not a story. It was a graduation film. Somebody handed in this and then went to their ceremony.

A mother goat saves her young from inside a wolf's belly, only to discover that Toruku, her eldest son, is missing. When Toruku eventually comes home, he must face his own fears along with the disfigured bodies of his brothers and sisters. As the wolf draws near once more, the truth behind his absence begins to surface while the family struggles to survive. The horror film has a mystery at its center and a psychological edge, and it was made as Tomoki Misato's 2018 graduation work at Tokyo University of the Arts.